OpenHands vs Tabby
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14
OpenHands and Tabby land in a near tie overall, each scoring 4 out of 100 and each showing up in a small slice of answers—6 of 70 for OpenHands, 5 of 70 for Tabby. OpenHands does best on the open-source question, named in all 3 answers there, plus 2 of 4 on cross-codebase agents. Tabby's strongest showings are 2 of 3 on both the local-privacy question and the open-source question. Head-to-head, OpenHands led on 3 questions, Tabby on 2, with 15 ties. Neither is ever named for reliability, testing, 2026 rankings, or beginner-focused questions.
Head to head
| metric | OpenHands | Tabby |
|---|---|---|
| score | 4 | 4 |
| questions won | 3 | 3 |
By assistant
OpenHands
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 3 | 5% of answers | #5.0 |
| Claude | 7 | 15% of answers | #8.0 |
| Gemini | 4 | 10% of answers | #11.0 |
| Perplexity | 3 | 5% of answers | #6.0 |
Tabby
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 8 | 15% of answers | #6.3 |
| Claude | 4 | 10% of answers | #9.5 |
| Gemini | 0 | 0% of answers | |
| Perplexity | 0 | 0% of answers |
Where they differ
Only OpenHands gets named for
- What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?
- What's the best AI coding assistant that works in the terminal?
Only Tabby gets named for
- What's the best AI coding assistant I can run locally for privacy?
- What are the best free AI coding assistants?
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